E127/Bahl - Homepage

Syllabus	Description, policies, grading and procedures for the course
Schedule	Overview of complete course, as well as links to webpages for individual weeks with detailed reading and writing assignments; these links become live as we move through the quarter
Orientation	Introduction to the course, overview of assignments, and checklist for success in an online course.
Assignments	More detailed overview of the major assignments in the course.
Announcements	Archive of class announcements; only the most recent ones appear below
Questions	Major course handouts and assignments
Forum	Gateway to websites on which students post homework assignments and some drafts (note that major assignments are sent to the instructor as attachments)

Printing: When you try to print webpages from this website, your printer may cut off a portion of what appears on your screen. To correct this problem, choose "Page Setup" from the File menu (of Internet Explorer); selecting 0.5 inches for all margins should correct this problem and allow you to print the full content of the webpages on this site.

Welcome to English 127: Research Writing for the Social Sciences. If you have not already found it, please go to our main course website: http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/bahl/E127/home.html (make it one of your Favorites or Bookmarks).

Course Materials: All relevant materials for the course appear on multiple webpages on the website listed above. Once you are on the course website, click on the buttons on the left bar as well as on other relevant links. In particular, you should PRINT OUT AND READ CAREFULLY the Orientation, Syllabus, and Schedule, and Week 1 pages. Note that the Schedule page also has links to the individual weekly schedule pages, which will become live as we go along). For example, Week 1 will be live at the beginning of the quarter; Week 2 will become live by the end of Week 1, if not sooner, and so on. Also review the Questions page, which is like a site-map for this course and has links to major course handouts. You may have to adjust your printer settings (or page layout settings) so that the full content of the screens will print out properly.

ANGEL: All relevant course materials, assignments and guidelines may be found on the website listed above, but we will also make use of ANGEL http://greenriver.angellearning.com/ for the “Discussion Forum” only. With the exception of the final drafts for the three major papers for the course (as well as the Self Assessment at the end), the other assignments in the course will be posted to our ANGEL website. ANGEL requires you to have a username and password. If you are a new user of Angel, go to the following webpage for login instructions: http://www.greenriver.edu/elearning/newpages/angel.htm. Note that you will not be able to login to Angel until noon of the first day of the quarter, or until 24 hours after registering if you are registering late (not including weekends).

Student Email: You may send me messages from your primary email account or from ANGEL. ANGEL makes use of your GRCC student email account (mail.greenriver.edu), which you must activate by going to http://www.greenriver.edu/studentemail/. Note that when you send me a message from ANGEL, you will NOT get a reply to ANGEL, but to your GRCC student email account. I strongly recommend that you change your GRCC student email settings so that all messages sent to your GRCC email account are automatically forwarded to your primary email address (unless you regularly check your GRCC email, which is not the same as your ANGEL email).

Contacting the Instructor: Don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have. Please review the Format Instructions page for guidelines about sending me email: http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/bahl/E127/format.htm.

Required Books: The following textbooks are available through The Paper Tree, which is the Green River bookstore: http://www.greenriver.edu/bookstore/. It is important that you have the correct editions.

Week 1 Schedule: Please print out and read the Week 1 schedule. This page lists the reading and writing assignments for the first week (the writing assignments will be submitted in the Forum, for which you will need to log onto the GRCC Angel site). In many cases, I include a good number of explanatory comments in these weekly schedule pages, which can be seen as the equivalent of lecture. Since we don't see each other in class regularly, I have to rely on writing to you. Make sure you are "listening" carefully by printing out, reading, questioning, marking up, and following up (via email, phone, or office visit) what I have "said." It may be too overwhelming or unproductive to read the entire Week 1 page all at once. Even if you read through the entire page once when you first print it out, be prepared to re-read more carefully what I have written under the different days as you go through the week. For example, re-read what I have written under Thu, June 23 when you get ready to do the reading assignment for that day. There may also be links that take you to different webpages for the lessons of any given week. For example, the Week 1 page has links to other pages (handouts) such as "Writing Summaries," etc. Make sure you also click on those links and print out those pages, which often serve as mini-lectures. Again, it is important to read or re-read these lectures (or "handouts") as you're working on the corresponding assignment, rather than all at once and only once.